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Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

The public is a part of my real life.

I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.

I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.

Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my apartment.